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Monday, February 27, 2012

ZOÖTROPE – READ IT IN FULL

Zoötrope takes you behind the scenes of a theater run by unusual animal performers. This children’s book also features a mysterious note, a missing title card, and a small love story, all in two acts.

As part of Viktor Koen’s book seminar project, we as a class read “My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer” by Brendan Mathews and took visual or thematic elements from the story as inspiration for our own projects. I took the backstage/frontstage elements of the circus and turned them into this blue-and-yellow-lit theater story. Maybe tech theater folks can spot all the fire safety references.

It was a long and exhilarating process. Viktor and everyone in the class were challenging and inspiring critics and I owe them a lot.